According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, an Indiana man is awaiting trial on allegations he handcuffed and bound his girlfriend while threatening to bash her head with a hammer and remove her fingernails with pliers.

Ernest H. Pyle, 45, of Milan, Ind., is in jail in lieu of $250,000 bond as he awaits trial on charges of aggravated kidnapping and resisting arrest, according to Pigeon Forge Police Chief Jack Baldwin.

Pyle allegedly held his girlfriend, 30-year-old Kathy Miller of Cincinnati, captive for two days before she was able to escape her binds and seek aid from a motel clerk, Baldwin said.